| Title | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acılar Paylaşılmaz | Turkey | Drama | Kadir Inanir, Betül Aytaç, Kerem Tunaboylu and Osman Gidisoglu | |||
| Coming Out | East Germany | Romance, drama | Matthias Freihof, Dagmar Manzel, Dirk Kummer, Michael Gwisdek, Werner Dissel, Gudrun Ritter, Walfriede Schmitt, Axel Wandtke, Pierre Bliss, René Schmidt, Thomas Gumpert, Ursula Staack, Robert Hummel and Horst Ziethen | Coming Out was the winner of the Teddy Award for best feature film at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.[1] | ||
| , Jeffrey Friedman | United States | Documentary | Dustin Hoffman (narrator) | About the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt; won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1990.[2] | ||
| Dead Poets Society | United States | Drama | ||||
| Fun Down There | United States | Drama | Yvonne Fisher, Martin Goldin, Nickolas B. Nagourney, Jeanne Smith, Gretchen Sommerville, Betty Waite, Harold Waite and Michael Waite | |||
| Identity Crisis | United States | Comedy | ||||
| Justine's Film | Canada | Drama | Marie-Hélène Montpetit | a.k.a. Le film de Justine | ||
| The Things of Love | Spain | Musical | Ángela Molina, Ángel de Andrés López, Manuel Bandera, María Barranco, Amparo Baró, Mary Carmen Ramírez, Diana Peñalver, Juan Gea, Rafael Alonso, Eva León, Ana Sáinz, Manuel Gallardo, Mari Paz Ballesteros (as Mª Paz Ballesteros), María Rus and Antonio Canal (as Tony Canal) | a.k.a. Las cosas del querer | ||
| Last Exit to Brooklyn | United States United Kingdom West Germany | Crime, drama | Based on the novel of the same name by Hubert Selby Jr. | |||
| Longtime Companion | United States | Romance, drama | First wide-release film to deal with the subject of AIDS | |||
| United States | Drama | Bretton Vail, Maureen Dondanville, Andrea Beane, Nicole Dillenberg, Marcus D'Amico and Lance Woods | Winner of the Ernest Artaria Award at the 1989 Locarno International Film Festival. | |||
| Looking for Langston | United Kingdom | Drama | Ben Ellison, Matthew Baidoo, Akim Mogaji, John Wilson, Dencil Williams, Guy Burgess, James Dublin, Harry Donaldson, Jimmy Somerville, Stuart Hall and Langston Hughes | Memoriam to Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, winner of the Teddy Award at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| The Rainbow | United Kingdom United States | Action, drama, romance | Sammi Davis, Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe, Christopher Gable, David Hemmings, Glenda Jackson, Dudley Sutton, Jim Carter, Judith Paris, Kenneth Colley, Glenda McKay, Mark Owen, Ralph Nossek, Nicola Stephenson, Molly Russell, Alan Edmondson, Rupert Russell, Richard Platt, Bernard Latham, John Tams, Zoe Brown, Amy Evans and Sam McMullen | Adapted from the novel of the same name by D. H. Lawrence | ||
| Salut Victor | Canada | Drama | Jean Besré, Muriel Dutil, Jacques Godin, Juliette Huot, Marthe Nadeau, Huguette Oligny, Jean-Louis Roux and Julie Vincent | Based on the short story Matthew and Chauncy by Edward O. Phillips | ||
| Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills | United States | Comedy | ||||
| Michael A. Simpson | United States | Slasher | a.k.a. Nightmare Vacation III | |||
| Tongues Untied | United States | Documentary | Marlon Riggs, Essex Hemphill and Brian Freeman | |||
| The Unbelievable Truth | United States | Comedy, drama | Adrienne Shelly, Robert John Burke (credited as Robert Burke) | |||
| Via Appia | Germany | Adventure, drama, romance | Peter Senner, Guilherme de Pádua (credited as Guilherme de Padua), Yves Jansen, Margarita Schmidt, José Carlos Berenguer and Gustavo Motta |